By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr Joe McGrath was born in Dublin in 1888. By 1916 he was working with his brother George at Craig Gardiner and Co., a firm of accountants in Dublin. He worked with Michael Collins, a part-time fellow clerk, and the two struck up a friendship. In his spare time McGrath worked … Read more
By Linda Hickey One of the most prized collections in Dublin City Archives is our collection of 102 royal charters. Issued by successive English monarchs and their representatives, these charters granted rights such as privileges and property, the right to run a ferry on the River Liffey, pardons to the people of Dublin for various … Read more
By Saskia Vermeulen In this issue we explore newsreels of two pivotal moments, fortunately captured on film. Ireland’s lack of indigenous film-making during the early part of the last century means that the moving image was predominantly captured by non-Irish agencies. These newsreels of Irish events were screened alongside home-grown stories in cinemas and were … Read more
1–3 KILDARE STREET, DUBLIN By Damian Murphy The Kildare Street Club can trace its origins back to 1782, when William Conyngham (1733–96), blackballed from his usual haunt at Daly’s Club in Dame Street, established a rival club in a townhouse at 6 Kildare Street. Daly’s Club faltered and the Kildare Street Club flourished, resulting in … Read more
By Eamonn O’Keeffe The Soldiers and Chiefs exhibition in Dublin’s Collins Barracks houses a polychromatic uniform of the Kilkenny Militia with a provenance no less colourful. Saved by an antiquarian from the ignominious fate of adorning a garden scarecrow, it is a striking testament to the remarkable crescendo of martial music in Ireland prompted by … Read more